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I wrote a short history of Ukraine that can be read in an hour or so. ukrainesolidaritycampaign.org/2022/04/13/ten…

#OnThisDay 79 years ago, the #WarsawGhettoUprising began. This online exhibition by @YadVashem uses historical records and first-hand testimony from resistance fighters like Marek Edelman to take a closer look at life in the last months of the ghetto: yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibiti…

Join us for another event of Voices from Ukraine! This time, we will concentrate on the methods and practices of Russian propaganda in the ongoing war. Registration: t1p.de/hqmwx Europa-Universität Viadrina Viadrina IFES Kyiv Dialogue @KyivSchool Denis Trubetskoy Ukraine verstehen

Cinematic attempts to tell the story of historical traumata in ex-Yugoslavia are often steeped in political controversy. Read our latest contribution to the Cultures of History Forum by Nevena Dakovic: cultures-of-history.uni-jena.de/serbia/represe… #Serbia #Bosnia

Holocaust, Russia-Ukraine War: Paths of memory in today's reality - opinion jpost.com/opinion/articl…

Read about Czech pop-cultural representations of the "wild 1990s" in our latest post by Veronika Pehe in the Cultures of History Forum: cultures-of-history.uni-jena.de/czech-republic… #historydebate

What do 1970's Soviet spy movies and TV serials have to do with Putin's war on Ukraine? Read our latest blog in the Cultures of History Forum by Violeta Davoliute to find out! cultures-of-history.uni-jena.de/russia/the-pop… #historymatters #culturalmemory #PutinsWar

There you go - another wave of monumental destruction. As if removing monuments has ever helped to solve mnemonic dissonances in society: Up to 300 Soviet monuments set for removal in Latvia: eng.lsm.lv/article/cultur…

In the latest post to the Cultures of History Forum Gero Fedtke and Ivan Fukalov take us to Ata-Beyit - a memorial complex near Bishkek that represents all the complexity and contradition of Kyrgystan's memory culture today: cultures-of-history.uni-jena.de/kyrgystan/the-… #historymatters #Kyrgystan

With a joint prayer of all of those who came to commemorate #genocide, the remains of newly identified victims will be sent to their eternal rest.

Was vor 27 Jahren in #Srebrenica geschah, ereig­net sich jetzt in Butscha, Mariu­pol und anderen von Russ­land erober­ten Gebie­ten der #Ukraine. Ein Essay von Marieluise Beck zum heutigen Gedenktag an die Opfer des Massakers. libmod.de/von-srebrenica…

The Occupation Museum in Riga has finally opened its brand new exhibition of Latvia's 20th-century history to the public. Read the review by Katja Wezel in the Cultures of History Forum: cultures-of-history.uni-jena.de/exhibitions/fe… #Latvia #publichistory

How is the conflict over Transnistria remembered 30 years later + in the face of war in Ukraine? Our latest contribution to the Cultures of History Forum by Anastasia Felcher takes you through a history of continous memory confrontation: cultures-of-history.uni-jena.de/politics/the-1… #Moldova

Unheil­volle Paral­lelen. Ideologisch-nationalistische Rhetorik in Russ­land und Serbien #GdG GdG geschichtedergegenwart.ch/unheilvolle-pa…

Aufgehängt an #Silvester2022 reden sich derzeit viele die Köpfe heiß über Migration, Integration und Asyl. Wer nach Fakten statt Meinung sucht, ist bei unserer aktuellen Podcast-Folge zur Geschichte und Gegenwart von #Asyl in Deutschland gut aufgehoben 📻 koerber-stiftung.de/mediathek/asyl…

If Germany has truly learned from its history, it will send tanks to defend Ukraine theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

I wrote an essay on THE POLITICAL ROLE OF THE HISTORIAN for the new issue of Contemporary European History (No Paywall): doi.org/10.1017/S09607…

Read about the uses and abuses of the Kievan Rus' history in the current war in our latest publication in the Cultures of History Forum, by Jeremy Cohen: cultures-of-history.uni-jena.de/politics/russi… #Russia #Ukraine #historymatters

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